Master Cook. Behold in me a pupil of the school
Of the sage Epicurus.
Friend. Thou a sage!
M. C. Ay! Epicurus too was sure a cook,
And knew the sovereign good. Nature his study,
While practice perfected his theory.
Divine philosophy alone can teach
The difference which the fish Glociscus shows
In winter and in summer: how to learn
Which fish to choose, when set the Pleiades,